Letizia Le Fur

Photography

Letizia Le Fur graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France in 1998 and first trained as a painter. With the encouragement of artist and teacher Valérie Belin, she soon turned her aesthetic quest to photography.

Her work centers on the depiction of beauty and the representation of a fantasized otherworld. Letizia Le Fur’s attention to color is very particular; like a painter, she mixes colors on her palette, isolates and transforms, corrects, adds, exalts the tones, amplifies them to transcend reality and creates this sensation of unreal world.

Nominated for the Niepce Prize (2022), winner of the Leica/Alpine Prize (2018), the BNF's Grande Commande Photographique (2022) as well as the “Fenêtres Ouvertes Prize” organized by the MEP (2020), she was also resident for the Planches Contact festival in Deauville (2020), and the InCadaques festival (2021).

In parallel to her artistic work, Letizia Le Fur collaborates with advertising, press (AD, New York Times, Milk …)

She published Mythologies - Chap. I & II in 2021 and Mythologies - Chap. III in 2022 with Editions Rue du Bouquet.

She is also a Leica ambassador since 2019, and has recently showed her solo exhibition at the French Institute in Madrid.

Bijou bijou II

Les Echappées

Je n'ai plus beaucoup de temps, dit-elle, 2016-2021 Journal

Carrousel

Japon

Bouquet final

Set design & flowers by Anne Chu Ba

Bijou, bijou III

Bijou bijou I

Sentir beau

Les métamorphoses III - Mythologies

..."Guidée par les poètes classiques, notamment par Hésiode et Ovide, Letizia interprète ici librement les mythes, re-visités par sa sensibilité et par une approche esthétique contemporaine. Sa quête d’harmonie et de beauté telle la pratique d’un culte, en opposition à la laideur et à l’inapproprié est libérée et éloignée des codes en vigueur, inattendue, absolue, parfois secrète …"
Laura Serani

…"Mentored by Classical poets, Hesiod and Ovid in particular, Letizia revisits mythology with her own sensitivity and aesthetic approach, to freely interpret them in this work. She transforms and transcends what surrounds her, embellishing reality, colouring what is grey, in order to invent a world of her own, where she can settle, hide away, atone and find harmony in the midst of harshness..."

Laura Serani

« … Letizia cherche à transformer et à transcender ce qui l’entoure, à embellir le réel, colorer les gris, s’inventer un monde repaire/repère, où se poser, se réparer, trouver un équilibre au milieu de l'âpreté. A la recherche d’une sorte de refuge esthétique et d’un état de plénitude. Presque une obsession, comme à l’écoute de Stendhal écrivant, dans l’essai De l’amour, « La beauté n'est que la promesse du bonheur »".

Laura Serani

Letizia search for an aesthetic refuge and for plenitude grazes obsession, and conveys what Stendhal wrote in his essay De l'amour: "Beauty is the promise of happiness." Her quasi-religious quest for harmony and beauty, in opposition with everything ugly and inappropriate, is unexpected, absolute, even secretive at times, and definitely freed from codes and standards. »

Laura Serani